Jack John Kelly

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[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"....May God grant your heart's decision overtake you still on earth and may God bless your path." (2/2) #TheBrothersKaramazov

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"Even if it cannot be resolved in a positive way, it will never be resolved in a negative way either-you yourself know this property of your heart, and there lies the whole of its torment....." (1/2) #TheBrothersKaramazov

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"...Today they live on only in unread memoirs, the occasional place name, and in the yellowing intelligence reports of that long-forgotten adventure." (2/2) #TheGreatGame

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"The British heroes of the Great Game had no such memorial, and there is little or nothing to show on the map for all their efforts and sacrifices." #TheGreatGame (1/2)

[Dr. Dominic Ng @DrDominicNg]

Chess is 30 years ahead of every other profession in dealing with AI. The best case study we have for what's coming.

4 lessons:
1. Human-AI collaboration had a 15-year shelf life in chess. "Human in the loop" is a phase.

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"Now....this story of mine will not be finished tomorrow night nor in two nights more, nor in two thousand and two nights. For it is the story of my love for you, which can not be told in less than a lifetime." #AThousandAndOneArabianNights

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"They'll burn or crumble or be destroyed. Still, they outlast many human lives; they form a silent empire of images and relics beyond the fleeting moment. To work at that seems good and comforting to me, because it almost succeeds in making the transitory eternal.'" (2/2) #Hesse

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"'But what has art meant to you, what has art brought to you?' 'It was the overcoming of the transitory. I saw that something remained of the fool's play, the death dance of human life, something lasting: works of art. They too will probably perish some day;..." (1/2)

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"Even Ceaser's fortune at one time was but a grand presentiment." #MiddleMarch

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"If this book hadn't been titled Too Big to Fail, it could have been called Failure of Imagination, because for so many of the participants in this story, thats exactly wgat was involved: They simply couldnt conceive of the outcome of their actions." #TooBigToFail

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"....but Welty himself used to talk about fateful objects....The pieces that occur and recur. Maybe for someone else, not a dealer, it wouldn't be an object. It'd be a city, a color, a time of day. The nail where your fate is liable to catch and snag." #TheGoldfinch

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

Wow... Warren Buffet says goodbye in his final annual letter today (full copy in the comments below).

As he signed off, the following were final words of advice:

"One perhaps self-serving observation. I’m happy to say I feel better about the second half of my life than the first. My advice: Don’t beat yourself up over past mistakes – learn at least a little from them and move on. It is never too late to improve. Get the right heroes and copy them. You can start with Tom Murphy; he was the best.

Remember Alfred Nobel, later of Nobel Prize fame, who – reportedly – read his own obituary that was mistakenly printed when his brother died and a newspaper got mixed up. He was horrified at what he read and realized he should change his behavior.

Don’t count on a newsroom mix-up: Decide what you would like your obituary to say and live the life to deserve it.

Greatness does not come about through accumulating great amounts of money, great amounts of publicity or great power in government. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless. Whether you are religious or not, it’s hard to beat The Golden Rule as a guide to behavior.

I write this as one who has been thoughtless countless times and made many mistakes but also became very lucky in learning from some wonderful friends how to behave better (still a long way from perfect, however). Keep in mind that the cleaning lady is as much a human being as the Chairman."

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"You're a strong woman, Dieu Lan. You'll triumph over whatever life throws at you.' She smiled and gave me her wooden bell. 'My gift to you. Buddha will hear your prayers. Let Him come to you and give you peace.'" (2/2) #TheMountainsSing

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"Nun Hien took my hands, only to cup my fingers into my palms. 'It's senseless to know, my child. Our challenges are there for a purpose. Those who can overcome challenges and remain kind to others will be able to join Buddha in Nirvana...." (1/2) #TheMountainsSing

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

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[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

An hour after one of the best baseball games you'll ever see, Sandy Koufax made his way into the Dodgers' clubhouse to applaud Will Klein for what he did on Monday. It was one small slice of a night that had everything. My column on Game 3, free at ESPN: https://t.co/ZgzqDARwuR

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"The soul can feel empty before the memory of its sins." #TheGospelAccordingToTheSon

[Jack Harris @ByJackHarris]

Mookie Betts did not make much of his Gold Glove nomination at shortstop:

“That’s validation for y’all, not me … The goal was to be the best that I could be. Now, if that came with a Gold Glove, cool. If it didn’t, cool. If I can go to bed at night knowing I did everything I could, that’s all I care about.”

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"...and of individual ambitions and power bases, which in various ways had plagued China since the late Ming dynasty, were not going to be eradicated in any simple way." (2/2) #TheSearchForModernChina

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"We can see with hindsight that despite the impressive restructuring of China's government, there were perennial problems embedded within the PRC. Tensions of regional and central authority, of crosscutting bureaucratic lines..." (1/2) #TheSearchForModernChina

[Jack John Kelly @JackJohnKelly23]

"This was the full-throttle type love that I never got figured out properly, due to being raised in shotgun fashion. What my twisted little raggedy heart had always, always wanted. A mother, simple as that." (2/2) #DemonCopperhead